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06/06/2006

Outstanding Caltech Graduating Senior Headed for Harvard Medical School

Robert Tindol

Fifteen years ago, Corinna Zygourakis decided at the tender age of seven that she wanted to be a brain surgeon. Now that she's graduating from the California Institute of Technology and heading for the Health Sciences and Technology (HST) M.D. program of the Harvard Medical School, she still intends to devote her career to the grey matter, although she's not quite sure yet whether she'll go into surgery.

05/23/2006

Caltech Has Formula for Gold-Medal Dining

Deborah Williams-Hedges

Remember when awful college dining-hall food was a rite of passage? Well, the students at the California Institute of Technology are being spared that fate, and the staff who run the Caltech dining halls have now earned several national awards to prove it.

05/17/2006

Ditch Day Is Today!!!!

Ditch Day, the annual end-of-school day of pranks and games at the California Institute of Technology, is today.

04/10/2006

Caltech's Cannon Headed Back to Pasadena from MIT

Jill Perry

Caltech students have "re-stolen" their cannon from MIT.

04/06/2006

Caltech Pranked by MIT Today

Jill Perry

MIT pulled one over on Caltech today.

03/29/2006

Murray Awarded Feynman Teaching Prize

Kathy Svitil

Richard M. Murray was a freshman attending frosh camp at Camp Fox on Catalina Island when he first encountered famed physicist Richard Feynman. "I was sitting down, looking across a field, and a professor sat down next to me and started talking about some shells he had found while he was swimming. Lo and behold, it was Richard Feynman-although I was an engineering student and not in physics, and I'm not sure I knew who he was at the time. That willingness to talk to a student typified his approach to teaching."

02/06/2006

Noted Play The Vagina Monologues Returns to Caltech as Part of V-Day Celebration

Deborah Williams-Hedges

Once again, the Obie Award-winning play The Vagina Monologues will be performed at the California Institute of Technology, on Friday, February 10, at 8 p.m. in Beckman Auditorium.

01/18/2006

Caltech Bands to Jazz It Up on Campus Friday

Robert Tindol

The annual winter Caltech Jazz Band Concert this year will feature the swinging sounds of New Orleans and the big-band sounds of some of the Los Angeles area's finest composers. The free concert is open to the public and will begin at 8 p.m. Friday, January 20, in Beckman Auditorium on the campus of the California Institute of Technology.

12/06/2005

Caltech and Eight Universities Support Greater Gender Equity in Academia

Jill Perry

California Institute of Technology President David Baltimore has joined with leaders of eight other research universities to encourage continued advances toward the full participation of women in academia throughout the United States.

11/29/2005

Students Square Off in Engineering Contest

Kathy Svitil

Fire up the griddle! It's time for the 20th installment of the California Institute of Technology's ME 72 Engineering Design Contest, which will be held at 2 p.m. on December 1 outside Caltech's Chandler Dining Hall. This year's theme: an "energy cook-off."

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